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    DASHNAKTSUTYUN CRITICIZES THE MOSCOW DECLARATION

    Lragir.am
    17:43:31 - 08/11/2008

    The next president of the United States Barack Obama has committed to
    the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which allows stating
    that his policy will be aimed at the recognition of the
    self-determination of Karabakh, thinks Kiro Manoyan, the head of the
    ARF Dashnaktsutyun Bureau office of political affairs and hay dat, who
    was hosted at the De Facto press club in November 8 for a debate with
    the political scientist Hmayak Hovanisyan. At the same time, Kiro
    Manoyan said that policy of Obama may be successful. `If no forces try
    to instrumentalize the issue of Karabakh for their interests,' he added.

    In this connection, Kiro Manoyan mentioned the declaration of Moscow
    which the presidents of Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan signed on
    November 2. According to the representative of the ARF Dashnaktsutyun,
    there are several worrying things about the declaration: the signature
    of Karabakh is absent, the declaration is not legally binding to turn
    the point about the peace settlement into an imperative, and the
    principles of Madrid are approved. All these make the declaration
    unacceptable for Kiro Manoyan, and although he says that the absence of
    a point on the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan is positive, the
    Moscow declaration does not proceed from the settlement of the Karabakh
    conflict but aims to increase the influence of Russia in the region.
    According to Kiro Manoyan, the presidents of both Armenia and
    Azerbaijan have signed the declaration because they do not mind the
    increasing influence of Russia in the region.

    Kiro Manoyan says an imitation of the settlement of the Karabakh
    conflict is possible, but it will foster the improvement of the
    Armenian-Turkish or Armenian-Azerbaijani relations rather than the
    settlement of the Karabakh conflict. Kiro Manoyan thinks the Russian
    initiative is actually a step towards the status quo, and Kiro Manoyan
    says the status quo is favorable for us. He says the next U.S.
    president Obama will not be against the influence of Russia because
    actually he will not follow the Bush administration which tried to oust
    Russia from the region.

    The political scientist Hmayak Hovanisyan thinks the Moscow declaration
    itself is not dangerous for Armenia. What is dangerous, according to
    the political scientist, is the process of settlement which displays a
    non-pro-Armenian tendency. Hmayak Hovanisyan says for years Armenia has
    built its diplomacy regarding the settlement of the Karabakh issue on
    Azerbajan's negationism, that is Armenia accepted any proposal that the
    OSCE Minsk Group offered, expecting Azerbaijan to reject it. Meanwhile,
    the political scientist thinks by rejecting Azerbaijan has taken a
    track which favors it, when the co-chairs reduce the amount of
    compromise by Azerbaijan and increase the amount of compromise by
    Armenia.

    Hmayak Hovanisyan says there is no international guarantee of security
    of Karabakh unless the Armenian force controls the liberated
    territories. The political scientist says history shows the relativity
    of international guarantees, and if we cede territories, it will be too
    difficult to guarantee the security of Karabakh and Armenia in terms of
    increasing the physical and material resource of Karabakh and Armenia.
    Hmayak Hovanisyan says a war, launched by Azerbaijan, not by us,
    ensured the natural border of division of nations essential to security
    and peace, and the one who violates it should think that thereby they
    shatter the basis of peace and stability.

    At the same time, both Kiro Manoyan and Hmayak Hovanisyan are convinced
    that in 14 years Armenia has not used the status quo effectively, has
    failed to populate the liberated territories. For instance, if we had a
    population of half a million in Karabakh, Kiro Manoyan says, the
    position of Armenia in the talks would be quite different.

    By the way, Kiro Manoyan said in the current situation the voice of
    Artsakh should be heard. In this connection, he noticed an essential
    controversy between the responses of the foreign minister and the
    minister of defense of Karabakh but noted that as the foreign minister
    of Karabakh stated, if Azerbaijan wants to settle the conflict, it must
    negotiate with Karabakh.
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